Christian science healing : its principles and practice; with full explanations for home students / by Frances Lord.

  • Henrietta Frances Lord
Date:
1888
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Credit: Christian science healing : its principles and practice; with full explanations for home students / by Frances Lord. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Perhaps you came across books on Eastern Theosophy, with its elaborate explanation of all inequalities by Re- incarnation and Karma; and you probably felt saddened after a little,—especially sad, though you had thought that impossible, so burdened had your heart been all along—as you found that Karma, as usually expounded, and without higher Spiritual laws, was just as oppressive, in its way, as the notion of physical heredity, though a trifle more just in its supposed operation. [Karma is a Hindoo word for the sum of a man's deeds for good or ill. He is 'making Karma' every minute of his life; by it his condition at death is determined, for it is 'the just judge;' and also his return to this earth to finish out the trains of action he set up for good or ill. The law of Karma has to be stated so briefly that the reader is almost sure to fasten upon its * endlessness' and ' hopelessness/ whereas, when understood, it teaches neither. It is one of the meanings of Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him. (Matthew v. 25, and Luke xii. 58.)] And now you have come across Christian Science, and its strong claim to general support in the name of its power to heal mind and body, regardless of all Heredity and all Karma, because offering a higher statement of law ; regard- less of all but the kernel and inmost relation of man to man's Source. To all cultivated people Ave would say : While you are studying Christian Science, lay aside your previous ideas and acquisitions ; we do not say they are incorrect; but we do say that we cannot stop to harmonize them and explain them to you ; that task awaits you when you have got the few elementary and basic principles on which we work. If you are far-reaching, reach far ; we are teaching elements ; the simplest truths for the simplest minds, knowing that the greater minds can, later on, possess themselves of the greater truths, when once the path is cleared for them by our simple teaching. Lay aside your theory of Darwinian Evolution; lay aside your theory of Spiritual evolution as expounded in